life in the past lane

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Superintendent Moore (Part 2): The Son

When Joe P. Moore announced that he was retiring as superintendent of Fort Worth schools, he said, “My entire life . . . has been spent in answer

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Between the two of them, father and son spent almost a century as educators—and one-third of that century at the top as superintendent of the Fort

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To frontier settlers, he was the mailman. To “soiled doves,” he was the top cop with a heart of gold. To children, he was the patron saint of

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Major thoroughfares such as McCart Avenue and Vickery Boulevard, of course, are not the only Fort Worth streets that carry a name from history. Take,

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What did readers of the Star-Telegram read on the first day of the new year a century ago? For starters, the front page was plastered with headlines

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Jonathan Young Hogsett was born in 1843 on the Clinch River in Anderson County, Tennessee. His father was a farmer. According to a biographical

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He was a typical boy of his generation: here one day and gone the next, swept into a war whose machinations he could not understand, killed by an

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The two men had a lot in common. Only six years separated them in age. Both were married in 1907. Both men were oil operators and had lived the gypsy

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He was ten percent of the sons of William A. and Mary Mayes Maddox. He was twenty-five percent of the Maddox sons who became Fort Worth lawmen. And

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William John Bryce was born on Woolieburn Farm, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1861. When Bryce was eight years old his family immigrated to Canada.

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Charles William (“Bill”) White was born in 1934 in the Florida Panhandle to James B. and Lovie White. Father James B. White in 1940 was a common

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Here are some more city parks named for people in Fort Worth history (see Part 1): Newby Park is located in Mistletoe Heights. Etta Newby was the

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The city of Fort Worth has almost three hundred parks. Most of those parks have nonpersonal names: Trinity, Forest, Gateway, Sycamore. But some of

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Early in the twentieth century America put the pedal to the metal and moved from the Age of the Horse to the Age of Horsepower. Likewise, Cowtown

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Cowtowners have always felt the need for speed. That need has naturally expressed itself in racing. And early on, in the nineteenth century, racing